all-too-affectionate

Updated: June 29, 2025

There were conclusions she wished instinctively to avoid, from which she instinctively desired escape. She forced aside the all-too-affectionate, bay filly who crowded upon her, shot back the bar of the gate and relocked it. Then, once again, she kissed the pretty beast on the forehead as it stretched its neck over the top of the gate. "Good-bye, dear lass," she said.

Lucas Malet - The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance